Panama, 1951 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and to collect bird specimens in Cerro Campana and other points in Panama; Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Correspondence, permits, newsclippings, expense records, travel notes, itinerary, film notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Ratibor Hartmann, John L. Keddy, Louise M. Pearson, Matthew Williams and Marion Illg Stirling, and James Zetek; Of special interest is correspondence from the Stirlings documenting archaeological field work in Panama

by: Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978

Publication date: 1950

Topics: United States National Museum, Ornithology, Archaeology, Panama, Canal Zone, Cerro Campana, Barro Colorado

Collection: biodiversity

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Field Book Project

Contributor: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Language: English; Spanish

Alexander Wetmore travels to Panama in 1951 to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and to collect bird specimens in Cerro Campana and other points in Panama. He was assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Materials include correspondence, permits, news clippings, expense records, travel notes, itinerary, film notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Ratibor Hartmann, John L. Keddy, Louise M. Pearson, Matthew Williams and Marion Illg Stirling, and James Zetek. Correspondence detail arrangements made seeking assistance from Air Force at Albrook Air Force Base in Panama and the United Fruit Company. Additionally correspondence details on-going business with Smithsonian including needed improvements to the Barro Colorado Island Laboratory. Of special interest is correspondence from the Stirlings documenting archaeological field work in Panama

Abstract: Alexander Wetmore travels to Panama in 1951 to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and to collect bird specimens in Cerro Campana and other points in Panama. He was assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Materials include correspondence, permits, news clippings, expense records, travel notes, itinerary, film notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Ratibor Hartmann, John L. Keddy, Louise M. Pearson, Matthew Williams and Marion Illg Stirling, and James Zetek. Correspondence detail arrangements made seeking assistance from Air Force at Albrook Air Force Base in Panama and the United Fruit Company. Additionally correspondence details on-going business with Smithsonian including needed improvements to the Barro Colorado Island Laboratory. Of special interest is correspondence from the Stirlings documenting archaeological field work in Panama.